New Features

Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

System Settings pages written in QML that are opened standalone now have the correct window height by default. This fixes the Fonts, Workspace Behavior, Mouse, Touchpad, and Launch Feedback pages (Marco Martin, KDE Frameworks 5.58):

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“Kate and other tabbed editors using the KTextEditor framework no longer display the dreaded “ambiguous shortcut” warning dialog when switching tabs with the ctrl+page up/page down keyboard shortcuts because the “move to top/bottom of view” shortcuts have been changed to alt+home/end (Cnristoph Cullman, KDE Frameworks 5.58)”
Won’t this confuse people that are used to using Ctrl+Home/End to jump to the top/bottom of documents?

Until they learn the new shortcuts, yes. While every shortcut change is bound to inconvenience someone, sometimes it’s deemed worth it. This was one of those times, because it allowed us to let Kate and other apps use the consistent KDE tab switching shortcuts.

Hope this one had a generic cause that was fixed in one place because there are additional places where this behavior exists
System Settings pages written in QML that are opened standalone now have the correct window height by default. This fixes the Fonts, Workspace Behavior, Mouse, Touchpad, and Launch Feedback pages (Marco Martin, KDE Frameworks 5.58)

Hello Nate, pleasure, I was thinking this long ago, you could pick up the “panel customization features” (which increases width and height etc …) and put in “System Settings” thinking about beginners. You can only customize the plasma panel on the desktop by entering “System Settings”. I think it would look great! Thank

I don’t think that would work, because you can add multiple panels to a single screen or activity, and each screen or activity can have its own panel. It’s much saner to have the configuration interface for each panel be tied to that panel.

Another great week/sunday at the KDE Community.
Plasma 5.16 looks pretty nice.
I would really love to move to Wayland session, but the last two times i tried, i only got frustrated, (Telegram Desktop with generic Wayland icon, really horrible performance at simple tasks as move the same Telegram Web window), i really hope Plasma 5.16 will be a nice step forward at usability of Wayland session under Plasma.
As always, great work Nate and all the KDE Community.
All of you really rock!!
Thank you everyone for your great efforts.
Bests to all mentioned above ^^.